Improvement in wash-boilers



`declare that the `following isa full, clear, and exact its 4construction and operation, refeiring to the antatvt eweessaawm tient.

f Letters Patent No. 83,329, dated October 20, 1868.

l'lillflROVIEIM'EN'T IN WASH-BOIIVJERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofl the same.

To all fuihom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN Smartwool), of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga, and in the State of New York,l have invented certain new and useful Impovements in Automatic Clothes-Washer; and do hereby the the description thereof, reference being had to `the accompauying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.` n

The nature of my invention consists in the construe-j tion and general arrangement of an automatic clotheswasher, which is simple, and works easier and better than any now in use. n v

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make rand use'my invention, I will now proceed to describe nexed drawings,.which form a part of this specifica-- A represents aboiler, made in any of the known and usual ways, inside of which I place a wooden float, B. This oat ts snugly inside `-of the boiler, and is provided with 'a metal flange, `0,'a'round its outer edge, `extending downward, which flange rests on the bottom of the boiler, leaving the wooden float a suitable-distance above the same. Y

\ In the centre of the float B is a circular hole, which is 'covered with wire gauze orf netting, a, which preventsV dirt from passing up through the `same with the waten `On the upper lside of the oat, above the centre hole, `is a cylinder, D, of suitable height, which contracts slightly' towards the top, and at the top forms a circular box, E the sides thereof ,extending beyond the sides n of theicy' der, and are perforated, as shown in the i drawing. I

A cap, F, covers this box.

The wooden float AB is also perforated with a number of holes, from each of which a tube, I, descends. These tubes I I do not extend all the Way to the bottom of boiler, but only a suitable distance, s'oas to allow water to drop back into theboiler after passing through the clothes.

The operation of this clothes-washer is very simple. The boiler is put on the stove. in to cover the float, sajr about two inches. Soap and soda are put in the cylinder D, through the top ofthe box E, when the cover of said box is put on.

The clothes are put in. As soonas the water boils it will rise up in the cylinder D, and yforce itself out of the openings in the sides of the box E with great force, drop on the clothes, soak through and down through the tubes I I, and again `be carried up through the tion, and which represent a side elevation, in section,` @Yhndef thus thoroughly Cleaning the @limbes from an Enough water is put aving thus fully described'my invention, 1 What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let In a clothes-washer, the wooden perforated float B,

providedwith a metal ange, C, tubes I I, and, at its centre, with acircular hole, covered with wire gauze, over which hole is placed a tapering cylinder, I), provided at its upper end with a circular perforated box, y E, al1 constructed and operating substantiallyas and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the'foregoing, I have here- .unto set my hand, this 15th day of August, 1867.

ALLEN sHERwooD.

Witnesses WM. H. STEvENsoN, ,GEORGE DARE. 

